Mission Electric

Our mission

We’re on a mission to create a transport future for Auckland that is cleaner, quieter and more comfortable for all.

A future where noise fades and clean energy drives our journeys. Where electric ferries cross the Hauraki Gulf leaving only a ripple in their path. Where every train glides across our city powered by just clean, quiet electricity.

A future where everyone can move across Auckland with ease and without emissions. Mission Electric has already begun to build this future.

Latest updates

Electric ferries

Our first fully electric ferry begins its testing process.

First electric double decker

We welcome our first fully electric double decker bus. The first in Auckland that will be primarily servicing route 18 in West Auckland. This bus will reduce 79 tonnes of emissions per year.

Halsey Street bus shelter

Having a plan to reduce our environmental impact is essential.Mission Electric exists to make our public transport network fully electric. We want to show you this plan in action — what better way than bringing it to life at a bus shelter outside our office. The Hasley Street bus shelter will show our goals and plans as we work hard to make our entire public transport network electric by 2040.

New Lynn goes electric

Route 24 is now fully electric. With the New Lynn bus depot going electric, there are now 43 electric vehicle (EV) buses that will be servicing route 24. This is West Auckland first electric bus depot and first full electric bus route in West Auckland.

The depot has the latest technology to reduce burden on the grid and improve the environmental impact of Auckland’s electric bus fleet. All of this without putting Auckland’s energy supply at risk.

Auckland Transport (AT) now has 133 zero-emission buses in its fleet. This makes it the largest number of zero-emission buses for a New Zealand city. AT will add even more zero-emission buses to the fleet over the next couple of years.

Low emission bus roadmap

Read our latest low emission bus roadmap for Auckland (PDF, 2.92MB). The roadmap provides a foundation for transitioning the bus fleet to low emissions with key milestones in 2025, and 2030.

Goals we've achieved

We've already achieved a number of significant goals on our mission towards a fully electric fleet, with more to come.

In 2019:

• Auckland Council declared a climate emergency
• AT committed to helping significantly reduce carbon emissions by having a 100% electric fleet
• the Climate Change Response Act came into action
• we began working to turn our transport fleet electric.

In 2020:

• 8 diesel buses on Waiheke Island were replaced with electric buses
• the CityLink fleet introduced 12 fully electric buses. 

In 2021:

• the ​hydrogen fuel cell electric bus trial began
• New Zealand's first hydrogen fuel cell bus was unveiled
• 85% of Auckland's train network became electric
• AT began electrifying the Papakura to Pukekohe train line
• 9 electric buses went live on the AirportLink service.

In 2022:

• the TāmakiLink bus service and 26 other Eastern Bay buses became fully electric
• Panmure depot went fully electric — Australasia's largest all-electric bus operation to date. 

In 2023:

• New Lynn to the City route 24 buses went fully electric
• AT operation emissions reduced by 54%.

In 2024:

• New Lynn bus depot was fully electrified
• route 22 became fully electric.

In 2025:

• 2 new fully electric bus depots opened
• 45 new electric buses were added for WX1 — route 11 and 12
• 46 new electric buses were added in South Auckland — route 82, 923 and 924
• 31 new electric buses servicing the North Shore
• 23 new electric buses — route 31, 313, 314, 325 and 326
• in total, 314 electric buses are currently operating in Auckland.